Five Stand-Outs From the Frieze Art Fair

At Frieze, art installations include a hotel that isn’t really a hotel, a ferry that isn’t really a ferry and a soccer field that isn’t really a soccer field. And one other thing: more than 190 booths of art.

The contemporary art fair, which opened Friday and runs through Monday on Randall’s Island in New York, grabbed attention with its brassy headliners: Al’s Grand Hotel, a restaging of a 1971 project by artist Allen Ruppersberg with two working guest rooms; New York artist Marie Lorenz’s salvaged rowboat shuttling visitors around the harbor, and Argentine artist Eduardo Basualdo’s soccer field with glass-filled goals. Beyond the hoopla over the installations, there is the actual business of selling art, with more than 1,000 artists at galleries from 28 countries. Here, five stand-outs from the booths:

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